President-elect Obama on 60 Minutes last night, clearly stating his intention to use executive orders to close Gitmo and ban the use of torture:
As I said way back in the primaries — this was my main, initial reason for supporting him: The rollback of the horrific changes wrought by the Bush administration.
It is also the thing that makes me most fearful — there are a lot of very powerful people out there with a vested interest in making sure such things are not changed, not rolled back, and absolutely not investigated.